Who discovered Louisville?

Answer 1

The french found Kentucky.Legend identifies Daniel Boone as the founder of Kentucky. In the colonial days, most colonists lived along the Atlantic seaboard and in land to the first range of mountains. Legend has it that Daniel Boone led a group of patriotic pioneers west, over the mountains, and carved Kentucky out of the wilderness.

The actual events are not so simple. The land that became Kentucky was land originally claimed by Virginia. In the earliest colonial days, no one really knew how far the land extended west, or what the geography of the land was west of the first range of mountains. Early politicians agreed on the northern and southern boundaries that divided each state; each state, in turn, claimed all lands west that lie within their northern and southern boundaries.

The earliest exploration followed waterways, such as - the Ohio River. Once the major waterways were explored, the land could be divided into sections. These territories had rivers and mountain ranges as natural boundaries; thus the unique shape of many states including Kentucky.

Kentucky has natural boundaries on all sides, except the southern, which uses the boundary line between Virginia and the Carolinas. This interior region was primarily Indian hunting grounds, and relatively unexplored when Kentucky was first identified as a county of Virginia by the Parliament in 1776.

So there you have it: the real founder was the Virginia Parliament. No one person can actually be attributed as Kentucky's founder.

To Daniel Boone's credit, however, he was instrumental in developing the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap in 1775 as a migration route. But, French fur-traders and later the British had long established outposts in the region. Finally, it was Virginia's declaration of the territory was an official county that mostly stimulated the westward migration of Virginians into the area.

Answer 2

George Rogers Clark founded Kentucky in 1778.

Ashely Parker